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CORNEILLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)
Synonyms:
Corneille; Pierre Corneille
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Instance hypernyms:
dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))